It’s often helpful to create a frame to show how the final image will look once the bleed is trimmed off. Now you have a border showing where the print ends and another indicating how far the bleed needs to extend beyond it. We’re all about keyboard shortcuts here!). Centre it on the page area by going to Arrange > Align and Distribute > Center to Page (or by just using the simple keyboard shortcut, ‘P’. Simply type in your new dimensions here.Ĭreate a rectangle that is the actual page size – x wide by y high.
We must therefore add 6 mm to the page dimensions by changing the page size from x wide, y high to ( x + 6) wide and ( y + 6) high. The content to be used as bleed needs to go into the drawing space (the rectangle indicating your ‘page’ in Corel). Note that the standard is to allow 3 mm of bleed on each edge, so that’s what we show here. So, without further ado, here’s a simple guide to adding bleed in Corel Draw. (The concept is illustrated at the end of this post.) It avoids the possibility of having an ugly white band down the edge of the poster if the industrial guillotine is off by a millimetre or two. This technique relies on the artwork having ‘bleed’, which is a bit of extra image that spills off the edges and outside the final print area. To get around that when printing your poster, we print on stock that is slightly larger than the final size required and then trim it down once it’s printed. You’ve probably encountered this on your home or office printer: you go to print a Word document and a warning pops up saying that some elements are outside the print margins. To recap what we discussed in the post about setting up your artwork: most printers, no matter how fancy, cannot print right to the edge of the paper. (Don’t worry – there will be another post about achieving this in Adobe Creative Suite in the near future!) We talked briefly about bleed in the recent post about setting up your artwork for print, but this post will focus on the nuts and bolts of adding bleed to your design using Corel Draw. To be able to achieve that in print, the final artwork you send will need to include bleed. In our experience, almost all poster designs have either some colour or an image that goes right to the edge of the page on at least one side. Presented by Seema Kapoor Provincial Resource Centre For The Visually Impaired Vancouver, BC, V6P 6G2
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